Foreshaft

Museum number:
2-2783a-d
Permalink:
ark:/21549/hm21022783a@2dd
Accession number:
Acc.46
Description:
Lance foreshaft. Brass point, wood sheath. (a) brass point in antler haft (b) wood foreshaft (c) wood sheath (d) wood foreshaft made at museum.
Donor:
Phoebe Apperson Hearst
Collection place:
Lower Yukon, Yukon, Yukon-Koyukuk Borough
Verbatim coll. place:
Alaska; Lower Yukon
Culture or time period:
Alaskan Eskimo
Collector:
Charles L. Hall
Collection date:
ca. 1895
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Foreshafts (arrow components)
Accession date:
August 12, 1902
Context of use:
For seals
Department:
Native US and Canada (except California)
Dimensions:
(a)— length 9.2 centimeters, (c)— length 19.2 centimeters, (d)— length 16.5 centimeters, and (b)— length 23 centimeters
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Foreshaft, accession number 2-2783a-d, described as Lance foreshaft. Brass point, wood sheath. (a) brass point in antler haft (b) wood foreshaft (c) wood sheath (d) wood foreshaft made at museum.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Foreshaft, accession number 2-2783a-d, described as Lance foreshaft. Brass point, wood sheath. (a) brass point in antler haft (b) wood foreshaft (c) wood sheath (d) wood foreshaft made at museum.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Foreshaft, accession number 2-2783a-d, described as Lance foreshaft. Brass point, wood sheath. (a) brass point in antler haft (b) wood foreshaft (c) wood sheath (d) wood foreshaft made at museum.

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